Belief to Action
I think most people have a woefully inadequate worldview.
This causes all types of problems. One of the problems that exists downstream of a distorted worldview is bad action. For me, “bad action” falls into two categories. It can either be “no action” when action is required or it can be “wrong action.”
How do we get from worldview to action?
Worldview is not hard to define. Its meaning is apparent. However, let’s start with something even more fundamental than worldview: cosmology.
Let’s begin with cosmology and work our way towards worldview.
Cosmology
What is cosmology? By looking at the word, you might simply assume it means “the study of the cosmos” and you would not be wrong. However, the term can be applied more broadly and, in our case, we’ll be thinking more metaphysically than physically.
A quick glance at dictionary.com gives the following definition:
“the branch of philosophy dealing with the origin and general structure of the universe, with its parts, elements, and laws, and especially with such of its characteristics as space, time, causality, and freedom.”
Religious systems have cosmological understandings. Even if you have never used the term before, you also have a cosmology. Your cosmology…
